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You'll never believe this, but it's episode 20.

I know.

Do you think we've got through that?

You know, in a marriage where it's all, or in a relationship,

it's all like

kind of cuddly bears and springy lambs in the beginning and then it goes into that flat trudge we've

reached the 20 episode itch do you think we have there's somebody out there bending down in a rather suggestive

way well that suggests that you've definitely hit the 20 episode itch if you're not even looking at me.

Listen, what have you been up to today? You've had quite an interesting day.

I just want to flag this up first. I'm scared of talking on this podcast.

There has been a suggestion that I might talk a bit more than you.

Oh, surely not.

Yeah. Surely not.

So I said to Corey, I'm going to try not to speak in this show very much. Obviously, it got

give you something to push off. And he said, well, Ian's feeling unwell. So you're going to have to

speak. So I'm just putting that up front as a disclaimer. I offered to sacrifice my own voice,

to honour Ian's superior knowledge and his masculinity.

You know it wouldn't have mattered anyway, would it?

But, you know, I was off work on Tuesday because I woke up, the phone went at half past eight in the morning,

I was stark bullet naked in bed, picked up the phone, put it to my ear, and I said,

Hello! Oh, I can't speak. And I'd literally completely lost my voice.

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